Alison Landsberg – Prosthetic Memory

Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, Columbia UP, 2004. Are memories – whether they are personal or public – transferable, implantable, or purchasable? Landsberg argues that with the advent of new (mass) technologies like cinema memory can be massively distributed through the

Laura U. Marks – The Skin of the Film

Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film, Duke UP, 2000. If cinema is an audiovisual medium in nature, why does Laura Marks look for nonaudiovisual sense experience in cinema? Of course, the films and videos she tries to examine

CFP: CREATIVE MEDIA

Special issue of Culture Machine vol. 11; http://www.culturemachine.net edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both at Goldsmiths, University of London) This is a call for papers and non-papers alike. It is open to artists, intellectuals, writers, philosophers, analysts, scientists,

Google refuses South Korean government’s real-name system

Google bypasses internet regulations regarding user protections by limiting YouTube Korea’s Web site functionality Google’s Korea Unit has decided to refuse South Korean government’s Internet regulations. Based on the Law on Internet Address Management, South Korea implements a “real-name” system,

The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway

      What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication

[Korean MBC] Message to the world ‘fight against Control of Speech in Korea’

Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2008. What made the working class not only progressive in accepting new technological reproducibility of the